Dev April 2013

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Stable version 0.9.0 released
by Thomas Bruederli 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Hello folks We can proudly announce the next stable release of Roundcube. This version enhances the webmail experience with these new features: * Improved rendering of forwarded and attached messages * Optionally display and compose email messages a new windows * Unified UI for message view and composition * Show sender photos from contacts in email view * Render thumbnails for image attachments * Download all attachments as zip archive (using the zipdownload plugin) * Forward multiple emails as attachments * CSV import for contacts The major change of this version isn't really visible to the users but even more important for the developers: the Roundcube framework. We decoupled the core functions for IMAP access, SMTP email sending, database abstraction, caching, etc. from the webmail application in order to make them usable for other free software products. Another major change since the 0.8 series is the new database abstraction layer. In order to add support for SQLite3, the PEAR:MDB2 dependency was dropped and Roundcube now uses the native PHP Data Objects (PDO). It's enabled by default since PHP 5.1 and is considered stable and well-developed. One drawback, however, is a small lack in the MySQL PDO driver which makes PHP 5.3 a requirement for this version of Roundcube when using the MySQL database. A minor but rather handy improvement is a complete new database update mechanism that makes schema changes much easier to be deployed. After the upgrade, simply run bin/updatedb.sh to apply the necessary changes to the database Roundcube connects to. In case you used bin/installto.sh to perform the update, the schema upgrades are done applied and no further actions are required. After lots of testing and collecting your feedback, this version is considered stable and it also includes the recently discovered vulnerability that allows an attacker to modify its users preferences in a way that he can then read arbitrary files from the server. We therefore recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube. Download both the webmail and the framework packages from http://roundcube.net/download Read the full list of changes here: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog IMPORTANT: We're still getting a lot of support requests from users who are under the impression that Roundcube is a public service such as Gmail or Hotmail. Unfortunately we cannot help these people and thus we'd like to encourage everybody once more to enter an URL to the option named 'support_url' in the Roundcube config. This will be display a link on all screens including the login page that should guide your users to instructions how to get help for your specific email service that uses Roundcube. Thanks a lot for using Roundcube and for your support! Best, Thomas

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plugins.roundcube.net ready for testing
by Thomas Bruederli 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hello devs After way too much time, we finally managed to get the composer-based plugin repository for Roundcube up and running. It's a clone of the packagist.org website with some modifications for managing Roundcube plugins. We also built a custom composer installer module that will install plugins to the right location and will also activate them right away in Roundcube's main config file if desired. Now it's time to fill up the repository with your plugins! Thus all plugin developers are kindly invited to register their plugins at http://plugins.roundcube.net In order to do so, you need to put each plugin into an individual SVN or GIT repository and write a composer.json file which contains the meta data of your plugin. Once this is done, please register at plugins.roundcube.net and submit your plugin by adding the URL to the source repository. It's as simple as that. More detailed instructions how to publish plugins and how a composer.json files needs to look like can be found on the http://plugins.roundcube.net site. Please note that the new plugin repisitory is still in beta testing and not officially launched. We're still working on improvements such as a plugin browsing page and more features of the installer (e.g. post-install and post-update scripts as well as automatic database schema upgrades). So stay tuned. Best, Thomas

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Roundcube deletes leading blanks upon sending - but why??
by Michael Heydekamp 05 May '13

05 May '13

Besides some issues I'm still owing the creation of a ticket for, I just stumbled across another issue: Apparently (and due to reasons which do escape me) Roundcube does delete leading blanks upon sending. So if I compose (or forward) this... ------------------------------------------------------------------ > AZERBAIJAN PERMIT AZA-0742/16.04.13 > ENTRY/EXIT: ADEKI/DUKAN > > UBBB HANDLING FCG/SW BUSINESS AVIATION COMPANY > (22/23APR) PHONE: +994-xx-xxx-xxxx > PAX HANDLING: SWBA GAT TERMINAL > CREW TRANSFER CONFIRMED > PAYMENT: ON CREDIT > > UBBB HOTAC ROYAL PARK BAKU 4* > (22/23APR) 2 SGL, RATE 86 EUR > CNFM:52818SB000043/52818SB000044 > PAYMENT BY C/C > > TURKMENISTAN PERMIT GC/24/2047/080413 > (UBBB-UTNU 23APR) EXIT: DUKAN / OTBOR ------------------------------------------------------------------ ...it will be sent (and displayed at the recipient's end) like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------ > AZERBAIJAN PERMIT AZA-0742/16.04.13 > ENTRY/EXIT: ADEKI/DUKAN > > UBBB HANDLING FCG/SW BUSINESS AVIATION COMPANY > (22/23APR) PHONE: +994-xx-xxx-xxxx > PAX HANDLING: SWBA GAT TERMINAL > CREW TRANSFER CONFIRMED > PAYMENT: ON CREDIT > > UBBB HOTAC ROYAL PARK BAKU 4* > (22/23APR) 2 SGL, RATE 86 EUR > CNFM:52818SB000043/52818SB000044 > PAYMENT BY C/C > > TURKMENISTAN PERMIT GC/24/2047/080413 > (UBBB-UTNU 23APR) EXIT: DUKAN / OTBOR ------------------------------------------------------------------ But that's not the way how I meant to send it. I'd like to send it "as is", which is "as composed" (WITH leading blanks). Please note that I enclosed the text above in quote chars only to be able to illustrate the issue (as quoted lines keep being untouched by Roundcube upon sending). The original text did of course not have any leading quote chars. I'm talking about plain text mails, qp-encoded. Cheers, -- Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany

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Mobile skin
by Francisco Chacón 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello everybody. My name is Francisco Chacón, am a web developer and am working on the development of a mobile free skin for roundcube. I realized that there is no one free skin, so i have no clear basis for start to develop it(my plan is make it free). I woul appreciate a lot if somebody helps me with some dudes and problems i have. One of my major dudes, is the markup language used for rounduce costumizable? I read the documentation of the languageś elements, but most of them are oriented to desktop visualization, for example the * messagelist * element is a table, but, in my opinion, the table is not practical in a mobile device (needs too much work whit css). I appreciate previously the attention and any comment, help or advise. Thanks

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Googiespell
by Rosali 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi all, Google has already closed their CardDAV service for public and they announced to close their CalDAV service. I noticed that Roundcube's built in Google Spellchecker stopped working yesterday. Does anybody know if this is a temporary issue (on Google's side) or if they have discontinued this service as well? Regards, Rosali https://www.google.com/tbproxy/spell?lang=de HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 949 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:27:49 GMT Server: GFE/2.0 <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=en> <meta charset=utf-8> <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width"> <title>Error 503 (Server Error)!!1</title> <style> *{margin:0;padding:0}html,code{font:15px/22px arial,sans-serif}html{background:#fff;color:#222;padding:15px}body{margin:7% auto 0;max-width:390px;min-height:180px;padding:30px 0 15px}* > body{background:url(//www.google.com/images/errors/robot.png) 100% 5px no-repeat;padding-right:205px}p{margin:11px 0 22px;overflow:hidden}ins{color:#777;text-decoration:none}a img{border:0}@media screen and (max-width:772px){body{background:none;margin-top:0;max-width:none;padding-right:0}} </style> <a href=//www.google.com/><img src=//www.google.com/images/errors/logo_sm.gif alt=Google></a> <p><b>503.</b> <ins>That’s an error.</ins> <p>The service you requested is not available at this time.<p>Service error -27. <ins>That’s all we know.</ins>

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What does this Javascript error mean? (IE8)
by Michael Heydekamp 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

This Javascript error just occurred to me while composing a longer message: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Benutzer-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C) > Zeitstempel: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:31:03 UTC > > > Meldung: Erlaubnis verweigert. > Zeile: 667 > Zeichen: 3 > Code: 0 > URI: http://www.xxxxxxxxx.xx/xxxxxxxx/skins/classic/functions.js?s=1362633182 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does/can this mean and why does it occur? IE8 and RC 1.0-git [GIT 20130422.1409] Cheers, -- Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany

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Getting message ID for selected message/message replied to
by Daniel Böhmer 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello everyone, I've been using RC for years and now need to develop a plug-in for a customer. My plug-in opens a second window when a message is previewed or replied to. In both cases the URL of the new window refers to an external software which provides additional info to a given message ID. I already solved opening the second window after the right events. How to retrieve the message ID? - When a message is previewed I already get its UID which seems to be RC's own way of identifying messages. I need to "translate" that to the global message ID which can be used by external software. - When a message is replied to all information about the original message seems to be passed by the "id" parameter in the URL for the compositor. I find it even more difficult to retrieve the original message's ID here. I already spent some time listening to the right events and opening the 2nd window which is now working. Hopefully you'll be able to give me some hints how to get the message IDs. Kind regards Daniel Böhmer -- Daniel Böhmer, Diplominformatiker (BA) Freelance Software Developer Diese E-Mail ist mit GnuPG digital signiert. Wenn GnuPG nicht verwendet wird, bitte die Datei "signature.asc" einfach ignorieren. // This e-mail is digitally signed with GnuPG. If GnuPG is not used, please just ignore the file "signature.asc".

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Roundcube Plugins, Separate Repositories, Config Files
by rodrigo 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Based on what I see at http://plugins.roundcube.net/, and my experience with Composer, it seems like all plugins should have their own repository, and should be installed either with Composer or they can be handled via git submodules. Is there any particular reason the default set of included (but not activated) plugins has not been separated out from the main repository into repositories of their own? I would even argue that skins, aside from the default, should be separate repositories. My group manages our installation with git and it would make my life a ton easier if this were the case. I saw an answer to "[RCD] update.sh clobbering custom plugin configs in main.inc.php?" earlier today, suggesting that a config file within the plugin should be edited. Plugins are basically vendor code, wouldn't it make more sense to make a plugin_name.inc.php within /config, and have a plugin standard (in the form of a config grabber method) that grabs the appropriate config file? This way, the plugin could be updated by composer or git, and there'd be no worry about overwriting configs, or editing vendor code. It'd encourage plugin writers to keep their config separate from the roundcube config, because there'd be an easily accessible function for it. Quite happy to write/implement this myself, so long as the idea/direction is acceptable to the lead RC devs. Thoughts?

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Duplicate users in database
by Glen Eustace 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Having now updated from .0.8.4 to 0.9.0, I thought I'd do an audit of the users in the database and am quite surprised by the number of rows with the same username. I cannot see how these have come about. The last_logins in some cases are very close together and in others they are years apart. Any clues ? I am guessing there are not supposed to be duplicates. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 4446 Ph: +64 6 357 8168, Fax: +64 6 357 8165, Mob: +64 27 542 4015 "A Ministry specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services to NZ Christian Churches, Ministries and Organisations"

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update.sh clobbering custom plugin configs in main.inc.php?
by Daniel Kahn Gillmor 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

hi roundcube folks-- A group i work with is running roundcube with a couple plugins that need a bit of custom configuration which (up until now, at least) we have stored in config/main.inc.php. We found that upgrading a test instance from 0.8.6 to 0.9.0 via bin/update.sh rewrote the roundcube config and in the process it clobbered the custom variables in config/main.inc.php. is this a bug in bin/update.sh ? Or is this a bug in the plugins in question? should they be updated to be able to indicate which config settings should be preserved? Or should we not be storing custom plugin configuration information in config/main.inc.php? if they shouldn't be in config/main.inc.php, where should we store plugin configuration variables? thanks very much for roundcube, --dkg

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